Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Total \To"tal\, a. [F., fr. LL. totalis, fr. L. tolus all,whole.
   Cf. {Factotum}, {Surtout}, {Teetotum}.]
   Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a
   total departure from the evidence; a total loss. `` Total
   darkness.'' ``To undergo myself the total crime.'' --Milton.

   {Total abstinence}. See {Abstinence}, n., 1.

   {Total depravity}. (Theol.) See {Original sin}, under
      {Original}.

   Syn: Whole; entire; complete. See {Whole}.